Love Biblical Style

I'm old enough to remember the TV comedy show called "Love American Style" that ran from 1969 to 1974. And during the years 1971 & 1972 (when I was 10 & 11 yrs old) it was part of the prime time Friday night line up that my parents let us stay up late for.

Between all those Fri. night shows (that included The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family and The Odd Couple) my parents had no clue what we ended up "learning" about relationships and love during those formative years!
But in hindsight they were quaint, I can only imagine what kids are picking up from the TV these days!

Love, when presented in a comedy situation, will focus on the pit falls and errors and difficult situations while providing a contemporary solution at the end of the show. Often the characters were confronted with moral limitations, heartbreak or anger, and struggled with them.
Regardless the problems, at the end of the 30 minute show everyone had big smiles as the credits rolled.

Never was Jesus mentioned though.

With all the trash in our media today, and the vitriolic anger displayed on our streets, I thought a review of how The Bible defines Love was in order.
So what follows is a study of "Love Biblical Style"!

The questions I hope to answer are:

• What is love?
• How can we see God's love in the life of Jesus?
• How can we love?

Revelation Ch. 12 Prophecy Fulfilled!

September 23, 2017 will be one of the most amazing days ever!
It's the ONLY time EVER in history that a particular celestial event will take place! A "great sign" in heaven!

The only day rivaling it was when the star of Bethlehem appeared to the 3 Magi indicating the birth of the King of Judah on September 11, 3BC!

If that wasn't enough, what makes this even more remarkable is this celestial event appears on the last day of the two-day Jewish Feast of Yom Teruah (Day of Shouting), otherwise known as Rosh Hashana (Head of the Year - New Years Day).
And my what a day it will be, full of noise and a great celestial wonder!

This day will also be the start of the fulfillment of all the events mentioned in Revelation chapter 12. Yes, you read that right - Biblical prophecy is going to be fulfilled right in front of our eyes starting this year!

For eons nobody understood what any of the language meant in Rev. ch 12: wonders in heaven, great wonder, a woman, a dragon etc etc... they all seemed so science fiction and defied logical explanations. But now we know they are referring to astronomical events among the constellations as well as events on Earth.

The whole chapter of Revelation 12 contains many prophecies that I cannot cover completely in one post, so today we are only dealing with verses 1-5 and the woman giving birth.

(Revelation 12:1-5)
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Notice I highlighted "great wonder" and underlined "wonder". First of all, while the word translated as "wonder" in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is appropriate, it misses what the wonder is.

The word in the original Greek is "sēmeion" (Strong's #G4592)as is defined as meaning: an indication, especially ceremonial or supernatural, miracle, sign, token, wonder.

And secondly, this wonderful sign is "great". It is the only sign noted as such in The Bible so we should all take notice of it and proclaim it to the world!

God told us back in Genesis, at the time of creation, about the heavenly bodies in the sky and about their purposes:

(Genesis 1:14)
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years

So we can see that God told us ahead of time to look for these things as signs. Just as the star over Bethlehem told the 3 Magi of the birth of the King of Juday, the sign on September 23, 2017 tells us of another birth!

The question before us at this time is: What exactly is this sign and what is God trying to tell us?